First, I'd retest him on Star. Perhaps he just got lucky?
Otherwise, a high test score with a low AR setup could be
that he understands question relationships in multiple choice
settings, but perhaps his reading level ability is vastly
slower when recognizing words. So, he may read a line in
Star well, but that is 1 sentence. When a page is filled up
with words, he may lose track of where he is on the page,
worry more about getting to the end of the chapter (speed
reading). So, when he takes a STAR test its about reading as
fast as you can, but when its only 1 sentence, that is easy
to do. Reading a book that has many sentences he no longer
concentrates on the passage but the start and end points of a
page or paragraph. So skims the material. He may be
discouraged to go down in book levels (Which is why I do not
like numbering books but color code them with different
shades of a color for a given number range). So a student
that is on light blue vs blue vs dark blue can go thru any of
them but they should start on light blue. Overall, they are
still part of the "blue" team. Start to get him back into a
lower level book.

On 10/04/09, 4th wrote:
> I have a student who tested well on the Star test, scoring
> 5.8 at the beginning of fourth grade. His test results
> from third grade were also good. He has failed more tests
> than he has passed this year on books that are within his
> reading range. I'm not sure if he's just reading too fast,
> or what the problem is. Any suggestions about how to help
> him would be appreciated.

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